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Inspired by his love for Dashiell Hammett novels, nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley puts an ad in the paper as a private eye. The case he gets turns out to be a strange setup and as he digs to the bottom of it his life starts falling apart.
Feb 10, 2021 · Here are 10 essential P.I. films… The Long Goodbye. Robert Altman’s adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel was updated for the 1970’s and transformed from noir to neo-noir.
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Hong Jin-ho, Joseon’s first detective, travels around solving trivial family disputes for pocket money as a private detective. However, he is determined to go to America someday and is saving up for the trip.
- Kayla Turner
- Chinatown (1974) Directed by Roman Polanski. Chinatown. R. Release Date. June 20, 1974. Director. Roman Polanski. Cast. Jack Nicholson , Faye Dunaway , John Huston , Perry Lopez , John Hillerman , Darrell Zwerling.
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) Directed by John Huston. The Maltese Falcon epitomizes the private eye genre and set the template for all who followed. Humphrey Bogart plays modern detective Sam Spade, tracking down the elusive title statue while outwitting manipulators and liars.
- Knives Out (2019) Directed by Rian Johnson. Knives Out. PG-13. Release Date. November 27, 2019. Director. Rian Johnson. Cast. Chris Evans , LaKeith Stanfield , Katherine Langford , Daniel Craig , Toni Collette , Jamie Lee Curtis , Ana De Armas , Michael Shannon , Christopher Plummer , Don Johnson , Riki Lindhome.
- The Long Goodbye (1973) Directed by Robert Altman. The Long Goodbye features Elliott Gould as an atypical, anachronistic take on Raymond Chandler’s private eye, Philip Marlowe.
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) Director: John Huston. Warner Bros. He’s nobody’s fool, obviously, but there’s also an edge to Humphrey Bogart’s private eye Sam Spade – a calculating, unsentimental, morally questionable observer of the iniquities around him – which brings live-wire tension to this much-loved artefact of golden age Hollywood.
- Murder, My Sweet (1944) Director: Edward Dmytryk. It’s still a mystery why they changed the title from the original Farewell, My Lovely, but this first film adaptation of a Chandler novel retains the trademark wry first-person narration, and gets almost everything else right, winning the author’s admiration in the process.
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Director: Robert Aldrich. In the three years between The Maltese Falcon and Murder, My Sweet, we were edging towards the modern world.
- Vertigo (1958) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Strictly speaking, James Stewart isn’t a private eye here but a cop who’s left the service after his vertigo was to blame for the accidental death of a fellow officer, and takes on a surveillance gig for an old friend.
Rate. 62 Metascore. Years after walking away from her past as a young private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown, just in time for her high school reunion, in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery.
Private eye Philip Marlowe helps friend Terry Lennox out of a jam and is implicated in his wife Sylvia's murder. He also is hired by Eileen Wade to locate her dipsomaniac husband Roger, who frequently disappears when he wants to dry out.
